Triple

T10999380
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Canadian Astronaut Corps E259965 entity
Predicate hasMember P10 FINISHED
Object Robert Thirsk
Robert Thirsk is a Canadian engineer, physician, and former astronaut who flew on both the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station, becoming one of Canada’s most prominent spacefarers.
E898874 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: Robert Thirsk | Statement: [Canadian Astronaut Corps, hasMember, Robert Thirsk]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Thirsk
Context triple: [Canadian Astronaut Corps, hasMember, Robert Thirsk]
  • A. T. H. W. Bagshawe
    T. H. W. Bagshawe was a British polar explorer and scientist known for his early 20th-century Antarctic research and participation in major expeditions.
  • B. Edward Milford
    Edward Milford was a senior Australian Army officer and World War II commander who played a key leadership role in the Pacific theatre.
  • C. William Dowdeswell
    William Dowdeswell was an 18th-century British Whig politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer and was a leading figure in the Rockingham Whig faction.
  • D. Martin Moscrop
    Martin Moscrop is an English musician best known as the guitarist and trumpeter for the influential post-punk and funk band A Certain Ratio.
  • E. Philip Skene
    Philip Skene was a British officer and Loyalist landowner in colonial New York who played a notable role in the northern theater of the American Revolutionary War.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: Robert Thirsk
Triple: [Canadian Astronaut Corps, hasMember, Robert Thirsk]
Generated description
Robert Thirsk is a Canadian engineer, physician, and former astronaut who flew on both the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station, becoming one of Canada’s most prominent spacefarers.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Thirsk
Target entity description: Robert Thirsk is a Canadian engineer, physician, and former astronaut who flew on both the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station, becoming one of Canada’s most prominent spacefarers.
  • A. T. H. W. Bagshawe
    T. H. W. Bagshawe was a British polar explorer and scientist known for his early 20th-century Antarctic research and participation in major expeditions.
  • B. Edward Milford
    Edward Milford was a senior Australian Army officer and World War II commander who played a key leadership role in the Pacific theatre.
  • C. William Dowdeswell
    William Dowdeswell was an 18th-century British Whig politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer and was a leading figure in the Rockingham Whig faction.
  • D. Martin Moscrop
    Martin Moscrop is an English musician best known as the guitarist and trumpeter for the influential post-punk and funk band A Certain Ratio.
  • E. Philip Skene
    Philip Skene was a British officer and Loyalist landowner in colonial New York who played a notable role in the northern theater of the American Revolutionary War.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69d6aa8a6a548190a750f944ccdc8064 completed April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d796d5457c819096630246fa5f7076 completed April 9, 2026, 12:08 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e34530ada081909dc58ff0261e93e7 completed April 18, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e35570b0bc8190a939b0c8e3ce8105 completed April 18, 2026, 9:57 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e359508a388190a16d48a17015e13e completed April 18, 2026, 10:13 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:25 p.m.